Sentence examples for dance fly from inspiring English sources

In a series of carefully composed vignettes, which appear at times like still photographs, the adolescents slow dance, fly a kite, and talk.

Instead, the researchers speculate that inflated legs help attract females from afar, as the legs of other species of dance fly are known to play an important role in courtship and mating.

For humans, attractiveness is determined by the symmetry of our features, but a study to be published online tomorrow in Biology Letters proposes that lopsided legs help males of a newly identified species of dance fly called Empis jaschhoforum to attract a mate.

Hence, males of the dance fly Rhamphomyia sulcata that use inedible token gifts to obtain mates are as successful as males offering small genuine gifts [ 9].

Lebas et al. [ 23] provided one of the few examples that allometry of a female ornament in the dance fly, Rhamphomyia tarsata, might signal fecundity to males.

Some empid flies (or dance flies), which cruise around just above ponds looking for insects trapped in the water surface, have enlarged facets arranged in a belt around the eye's equator the region that views the water surface.

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Much as some human males like to pretend that certain parts of their anatomy are larger than they are, female long-tailed dance flies inflate the truth.

Perhaps the male dance flies should take some tips from the male nursery-web spider, which has found a way to use worthless gifts to get what it wants.

[Since] our square dance fly-in is always during Halloween, we used to have people walking through the city streets in their costumes getting to the square dance.

Males of some dance flies (Empis spp).